As the World Wide Web turns Do you ever wish you could use Facebook Messenger as a desktop application in Linux? Maybe something a little like Facebook Messenger for Windows? Sure, there is more than one way to connect with your Facebook friends in Linux with programs like Pidgin, Empathy & Telepathy. But none of…

Are you familiar with the works of author Silvia Hartmann? No? Well, neither are we. Apparently she writes about magic, energies, and something called “EmoTrance“. We don’t know much about mystical emo energy here at The Powerbase, but we do know about the virtues of developing things out in the open, which is just what Silvia is…

Those of us that follow +Fedora on Google Plus got a handy dandy invitation to Fedora 18 Test Day – Power Management. On October 11th, those who have accepted this invitation are invited to use there laptops and report their experiences back to the Fedora team directly in an attempt to socially corral bugs and…

Salvatore Iaconesi is known as an engineer, teacher, hacker, artist, and open source supporter. But from today on he will also be known as something else: a cancer victim. Open Format When Salvatore got his diagnosis, the natural first response was to start searching for a cure. He requested copies of his medical records from…

Say what you will about the mainstream viability of Google Plus, but anyone who has spent even a few days on Google’s rapidly developing social network can tell you that the userbase seems unusually knowledgeable and tech-savvy. There have been numerous posts and articles attempting to explain this phenomena, but the most common theory seems…

Google+ has always prided itself as being a more natural way to share things on the web. So users of the Android Google+ application have always found it pretty strange that they got the short end of the stick when it came to sharing content from other applications. When attempting to share a YouTube video,…

News that Google would be relenting on it’s much criticized decision to require “real” names on Google+ has been making the rounds today, bringing renewed hope to those who avoided the service because of privacy concerns. Unfortunately, closer examination of the statements from Google and a quick check on the updated profile settings is all it…

Readers of “The Powerbase” with Google+ accounts may have noticed a pretty big change to their Stream selection recently. Google has decided to silently remove the Incoming stream without letting anyone know, and there has already been something of a backlash within the growing Google+ community. The Case for Incoming The Incoming Stream was a place…

Here is a nearly complete list of companies that support the far-reaching, blanket bill designed to save the desperate entertainment labels whose business models are now irrelevant. You can edit this document at will, but if you don’t have anything to contribute you are free to see if your favorite companies are listed. So, read the document and give…

If you are a reader of The Powerbase, then you have surely noticed that our logo is censored. This is a statement to make you aware of SOPA. Clicking on it will educate you on the dangers of SOPA and the threat it poses to the Internet,our culture and our rights. There is now an…